Employment – Local

MANILA, Philippines – Identifying industries with the biggest potential and investing heavily in them may hold the key to robust job generation, according to newly appointed Trade and Industry Secretary Gregory Domingo.

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is urging job-seekers to enroll in vocational courses to improve their chances of finding employment.

The new country director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Monday said that he was backing labor policies of the Aquino administration, whose fight against poverty and joblessness would be carried out by “productivity and employment growth.”

Advice from the people who know best: customers and those in customer service Customer service – good and bad – is a concerl all Filipinos have, whether as a a customer or as employees wishing to improve their careers. Over half of all employed Filipinos are in the services sector, according to the National Statistics…

GRAPHIC ARTISTS and information technology professionals can soon avail of job opportunities in game development processing as the country positions itself to become an animation design destination.

LEARNING & INNOVATION Last column we shared with you some characterizations made by Dr./Professors Ernesto Franco and Tomas Andres of Filipino management styles. Today let’s discuss the Filipino working style. I am not sure who did this research but I found these notes from seminars I’ve attended. I will try to explain them as best…

BOSTON — During a job interview, it’s important to explain what you can do for the company, but it is just as imperative to build trust with the person interviewing you. Here are three ways to align yourself with the interviewer:

LONDON — Men in Great Britain are less engaged in their work compared with women until the final years of employment when they get a late surge of enthusiasm, according to a survey released Wednesday.

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You would think if you were very qualified in your line of work and pulled down a great salary, that looking for another job would be easy. After all, those facts show that you’re recognized and appreciated at your current company, so why wouldn’t another company jump at the chance to hire you?

The Department of Labor and Employment on Tuesday blamed the country’s academic curriculum for the failure of many Filipino graduates to land jobs that are in line with their college degrees.

Data from the Office of the President show that from 2004 to Nov 2009, a total of 14.2 million jobs were generated. This is 237 percent of the low-end six million target and 142 percent of the high-end 10-million target stated by President Gloria Arroyo in the 10-point legacy development agenda

ABOUT 3.1 million workers, many in the agriculture sector, lost their jobs during the first four months of the year due to the severe drought brought by the El Niño weather phenomenon.  This number was 300,000 more than the 2.8 million who lost their jobs from January to April 2009.

MANILA, Philippines – Lack of jobs and extreme poverty are the two biggest problems the incoming government will have to solve.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) takes a strong exception to a recent article published in your newspaper which claims “DOLE” data as the basis in claiming the current, outgoing administration has failed in the area of employment (“GMA failed to bring down unemployment rate — DOLE data,” The Philippine STAR,…

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) expects better results in the next Labor Force Survey (LFS) once the agriculture sector recovers from El Niño, which caused job losses in the first few months of the year.

Sen. Edgardo Angara stressed yesterday the need to immediately amend certain provisions of the Labor Code to increase national productivity and employment.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor  and Employmnent (DOLE) projected yesterday a better employment situation in the coming months. Acting Labor Secretary Romeo Lagman said the employment situation, particularly for the agricultural sector would be much better with the onset of the rainy season.

The good news is that we have had nine years of uninterrupted economic expansion. The bad news is that the unemployment rate remains the same as it was nine years before.

THE JOBLESS RATE swelled to 8% in April, a two-year high, which economists said indicated a still weak labor market despite signs of an improving economy.

THE number of jobless Filipinos hit a two-year high in April despite the better-than-expected economic growth in the first quarter, lending credence to criticisms that the Philippines’ early recovery from the global downturn was not so impressive.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) yesterday reported that 344 foreign investors from 39 countries availed themselves of the agency’s job visa program since April last year.

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GROWTH in online job postings slowed to a three-month low in May amid sluggish global recovery that has dampened the service sector’s prospects. The Job Availability Index — a statistical measure using the total monthly job placements at Jobstreet.com with January 2007 as base year — rose by 24.3%, or 47.3 index points to 241.6…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is deploying 2,600 members of the Out of School Youth Toward Economic Recovery Program (OYSTER) for road repairs and clearing works to prepare Metro Manila for the rainy season.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday reported that there are more job vacancies now but fewer jobseekers.

One of my favorite questions when I interview job applicants is, “How did you find out about our company?” This innocent question sounds simple enought to answer, but out of the many questions that I ask, this one has allowed me to uncover the qualities and competence of the many people I interview.

Instead of a wage increase, a package of jobs and livelihood is what President Arroyo will unwrap today as the nation marks Labor Day.

ON Labor Day and a few days before Filipinos troop to the polls, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) challenged all presidential candidates to bare their plans to create badly needed new jobs and arrest mounting unemployment.

MANILA, Philippines – The Caloocan City government said it will create a master list of all its residents in order to help them find a fitting job.